San Francisco: The Abbey Press, 1955. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of mostly California poetry by this "Scottish poetess, Kate Rennie Archer, was born in Glasgow to a traveling shipping family. She spent most of her childhood moving around the Europe, as well as lived both in Malta and Algiers. She married a Scottish Royal Horse Artillery Captain, Douglas Archer in 1912. She was not only a trained teacher specializing in literature, folk lore and music, but she served in the Red Cross as a qualified nurse during the World War I. Her husband's unstable health forced the couple and their young son Douglas Jr. to move from Edinburgh, in search of a milder weather, to California in 1927. Always known for her active spirit, she and her 10-year-old son made history by traveling on a 'shoestring budget from San Francisco to Glasgow' in the 1930's, a voyage which received wide press coverage in the US. (Huntington Library) Although many of her writings are about war and portrayals of the psychological effects of these events, the poems in this book focus on the joy to be found in the natural beauty of California. Warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with a handwritten eight line original poem, and dated in the year of publication. 68 pp.